User Rights

twiki

1st off - this looks like a great product and just got it running and installed fine.

My first Q however, which I can't find anything on.

I want to give a few users upload rights to a specific album. However I don't want them to be able to do anything to the album. I tried giving a user upload - and selected my "test" album in managed album. However from here they can still create a sub-album.
I also want them to be able to title/add descriptions etc to the photos they've uploaded - also edit them, and delete them. So I turned on the "Ablum" right too. This allows them to do everything to every photo in that album.

Essentially what I want is to set up a user, who can upload photos to the specified album, not create sub albums, be able to title/amend/delete their own photos - but not do anything else.

Is that possible?!

acrylian

We don't have upload only album rights. Maybe this will answer your questions: http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/07/an-overview-of-zenphoto-users/

twiki

Yes I read that page but didn't help - hence the Q here.

Is there any workaround to what I want to achieve? Essentially managing your own photos only?

sbillard

Of course you could create a plugin filter that prevented creation of new subalbums. But why would you want to? Seems you are saying that a user should not be able to create a viewing structure that makes sense to him.

twiki

It's possible I'm using the wrong tool for my final aim. However essentially in the end, I just want to to display loads of photos.

So I have now set up a managed gallery for UserA, UserB and UserC - so they have full access to their own gallery and their own pics etc.

On a page I then want to display ALL the photos in these 3 galleries, in date order, but to the viewer not separate them by gallery folders, just 1 big photo repository. Is there a function to do this?

acrylian

On what page do you want to display that? I suppose you read the theming tutorial to learn how Zenphoto and its themes work in general.

twiki

Yes, I read that and am playing about with it all at the moment. Essentially on my website I want to have a photo page in an area within page, which will just display all the photos from every contributor.

So I am really not interested in gallery structure or breadcrumb menu etc - just want to dump all the uploaded images from any gallery on the page and allow visitors to see them all.

acrylian

Well, since Zenphoto is organized in albums on the filesystem you will have to modify your theme to use dynamic albums and/or tags probably. Depending on your knowledge you might want to look at the object model framework.

twiki

Thanks for the replies acrylian - I am a software developer by trade, but this is my first time ever working with php/web stuff, but I like getting my hands dirty with code so will look at your suggestions.